The Social Gaming Market Will Explode To $5+ Billion By 2015

The US social gaming market will blow past $5.5 billion in 2015,
according to a new report by BI Intelligence.

The social games market, including smartphones, will more than
double from last year, where we estimate it was $2 billion.

Here are some highlights from the report, which is available
today to BI Intelligence subscribers:

Social games will disrupt the traditional gaming
industry, by turning gaming into a service and making
it free-to-play.

Social games will break into the mainstream,
as new kinds of games appeal to new audiences beyond today's,
including hardcore gamers.

Monetization will improve as more people pay
and as social games advertising becomes valuable.

Beyond our estimates, the report includes an in-depth look at the
trends in the market, an exclusive interview with two social
gaming moguls, Mamba Nation founder Nicolas Gaume and IsCool
Entertainment founder Mathieu Nouzareth, and a library of charts
on our forecasts.